Name: The hidden cost of cheap meat exposed by Peter Singer
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It's embedded in our culture and our traditions.

because I was convinced that I had stumbled onto something

The fact that the animals I had been eating

had not had pleasant lives outside in the field

until one final day they were trucked to slaughter.

more and more of them had lived their entire lives,

that were obviously quite contrary to their welfare,

or milk could be produced as cheaply as possible.

Are we really justified in treating them this way?

And I fairly quickly decided that we're not,

and that therefore the way I'd been eating

and the way the majority of people in the world were eating

for Human Values at Princeton University,

and I'm the author of "Animal Liberation Now."

Upton Sinclair said it's difficult to get a person

to understand something if their income depends

I would adapt that to, it's difficult to get people

to understand something if they believe their dinner depends

If you remember the species, Homo sapien, great.

But if you're a member of another species,

we don't have to take your interests into account,

Most people say we're different from non-human animals.

We are rational beings and we can think about the future.

None of them can use language like I'm now using.

So doesn't that show that we're superior to them?

And of course, it does show that we are superior

The question is, does that really determine

of Utilitarianism in the late 18th and early 19th century,

responded to people who say just that and said:

If I wanna characterize philosophically what I'm arguing,

I would say we ought to apply the principle of

Any being with interests in the sense of being able

therefore have an interest in not suffering,

those interests ought to be taken into account

with the similar interests of other beings.

So equal consideration of similar interests does mean

We have to acknowledge the enslavement, cruelty,

that humans have been conducting on animals

The standard wire cage for egg-laying hens was one

It's a really small wire cage, too small for even one hen

And yet, one hen wouldn't be alone in that enclosure.

She'd be there with three, four other hens.

So incredibly crowded; a miserable life for hens.

- 'Do the chickens miss scratching in the barnyard?

- Secondly, for breeding sows, the mother pigs

or crates; so narrow that they couldn't turn around.

and locked that dog up in a crate so narrow

maybe you would be convicted of cruelty to animals.

But factory farmers can do that to millions of pigs

these birds have been bred to grow faster and faster.

Nowadays, when you buy a chicken at the supermarket,

it's been killed at about six weeks of age.

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